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Snapchat hack hits 4.6 million users
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| Jan.2 |
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Developing world obesity quadruples
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| Jan.15 |
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World Bank: Global economy at turning point
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| Feb.4 |
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World facing cancer 'tidal wave'
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  G7 condemns Russia over Ukraine  | Russia's G8 partners have condemned Moscow's military build-up in Ukraine amid fresh diplomatic efforts to avert a dangerous escalation | |
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G7 warns Russia on 'annexing' Crimea
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Air pollution 'killed seven million' Seven million people died as a result of air pollution in 2012, the World Health Organization estimates
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| May.5 |
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World facing polio health emergency The World Health Organization has declared the spread of polio is an international public health emergency
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| May.15 |
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WHO sounds alarm on spread of polio The spread of polio constitutes an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared
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| May.23 |
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  US ship finds hull of missing yacht  Map of North Atlantic Global| The hull of the missing UK yacht Cheeki Rafiki has been found in the North Atlantic ocean by a US Navy warship, the US Coast Guard has said | |
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 Warrant for Wikileaks founder upheld A Swedish court has ruled that an arrest warrant against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on charges of sexual assault will stay in place
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One suicide every 40 seconds: WHO report Every 40 seconds someone in the world takes their own life, a global tally of more than 800,000 suicides a year, according to a report
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| Sep.8 |
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Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984 A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures
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| Sep.29 |
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World wildlife populations 'plummet' The global loss of species is even worse than previously thought, the London Zoological Society (ZSL) says in its new Living Planet Index
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| Oct.17 |
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 Ebola crisis: No impact from pledges of help International pledges of deployments and aid for Africa's Ebola-hit regions have not yet had any impact on the epidemic, a major medical charity says
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Comet Siding Spring skims past Mars A recently discovered comet has whizzed past Mars, giving scientists a unique chance to study an object from the farthest reaches of the Solar...
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| Oct.28 |
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Ebola outbreak: World Bank chief appeals for volunteers | Jim Yong Kim has appealed for thousands of medical workers to volunteer and help contain the growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa | |
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Doctors Without Borders decries quarantine The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has warned some mandatory US state Ebola quarantine measures are having a 'chilling effect' on its...
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| Nov.13 |
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World Cup: FIFA embroiled in civil war
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| Nov.14 |
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'Major milestone' in polio battle US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) think a second of the three forms of poliovirus has been eliminated after mass vaccination campaigns
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Terror deaths rose sharply in 2013 The number of deaths from terrorism increased by 61% between 2012 and 2013, a study into international terrorism says
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Assange sex case: Swedish court upholds warrant An appeals court has upheld an arrest warrant against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, wanted for questioning in a sexual assault case
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World on course for warmest year | his year is in the running to be the hottest globally and for the UK since records began, early estimates show | |
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| Dec.8 |
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Halving of malaria deaths celebrated Global efforts have halved the number of people dying from malaria - a tremendous achievement, the World Health Organization says
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| Dec.9 |
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WHO: Ebola 'running ahead of us' The virus that has killed thousands in West Africa is still 'running ahead' of efforts to contain it, the head of the World Health Organization...
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Superbugs to kill 'more than cancer' Drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide - by 2050 unless action is taken
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| Dec.11 |
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Jihadists 'killed 5,000' in one month Jihadist attacks killed more than 5,000 people in just one month, an investigation by the BBC World Service and King's College London has found
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Global arms trade deal takes effect A global arms trade treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar business has come into force - a move hailed as 'a new chapter' by UN chief
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New Year's celebrations around the world
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